History Recap / InfinityTrainKnightOfTheOrangeLilyThe400RabbitsCar

** Part4 has some levity when Lampetia arrives with her perky attitude. The moment she gets shattered by Nadeshiko and requests London to kill her, and the aftermath of it, is a sign that things will never be the same from here on out.

* ShooOutTheClowns: The Pokémon world gets at most one scene per part while it's mainly focused on the horrors of this car.

* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The White Rabbit's Domain has the walls, floor and furniture slanted.
* {{Bookends}}: The beginning had a fairy tale of someone killing another via a staff. The end of the arc has London do that to Lampetia.

** When Tokio attacks Grace, she tells him that she will die alone and no one will love her. Oh will he be right on that...
*** Moreover, the way Grace stabs Utahoshi in the head is like how she'll stab Walter in The Fog Car.

** Waspinator, who first was mentioned at the end of Blossoming Trail, appears in person in this car.

* CharacterTics:
** The White Rabbit does a head twitch.

* DescriptionCut: After delivering Mallow's message, Specter idly wonders whether there's anyone on the Train who knows anything about signals. Cut to the Engine and One-One learning about the situation from Tomas, the Train's resident expert on such things.

** When Kisaragi say that he and Tokio are "Friends with benefits", Specter is immediately disgusted with what that means and Kisaragi has to explain no, not like ''[[BestialityIsDepraved that]]''.

* ForegoneConclusion: Given that this is a prequel.
** After being tasered and knocked unconscious, Specter suddenly opens his eyes as a lightbulb on his head starts flickering.

** Lampetia saved London from Jojima's cannons! Hooray! Then she gets shattered by a RocketPunch and begs London to kill her...

--->'''Kisaragi:''' I’m sorry...did you [Gladion] imply I just drugged him [Tokio] and then ''tortured him'' to become our leader?\\

** London has murdered people and Specter has performed horrible deeds as part of the Knights of Hanoi. ''Neither of them'' agree on Kisaragi making Tokio the White Rabbit or Project Solitaire in general.

** Given that this Car serves as the OriginStory for Tokio of ''Blossoming Trail'', not only will he escape his brainwashed state, but will eventually leave the Train. Unfortunately, he will not see nor communicate with Goh until ''Blossoming Trail''.
** Tokio warns Grace that she wishes she'll die alone and that no one will love her. While she's not dead by the end of ''Blossoming Trail'', everyone she ever has loved is gone...and then she dies in ''Voyage of Wisteria''.

* AdultFear: Tokio disappeared while on the search for Celebi and somehow wound up being the leader of a tribe of rabbits with no one knowing where he went...except for Mallow, who notes that the article that announced his disappearance is ''almost two years old''. Gladion also brings up that Tokio must have friends and family to return to and a message from Mallow reveals that Tokio's parents moved from Cianwood City to Azalea Town in the hopes of seeing him again. And then it's revealed that he ''chose'' to become mentally broken to atone for a crime that he ''didn't'' commit after seeing Grace murder Utahoshi without a second thought.

* EyeScream: In a flashback, an Apex kid with a caulking gun sprayed hot sauce into Tokio's eyes.

* ShownTheirWork: Specter tells Gladion that carrots to rabbits are the equivalent of candy to humans. That's actually accurate; despite what the trope may lead you to think, rabbits can only eat the leafy stems of a carrot.
** When the White Rabbit jokes that 400 is the equivalent of an infinite number, he's actually being correct. Aztecs considered 400 to be a very big number.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: When Specter does his card reading, he somehow obtained an extra card, the Ace of Hearts. Scenes later, Lampetia tells Larkspur that ''something'' happened to Specter that had him begging Lampetia to "Give him back his heart".

** Given that this Car serves as the OriginStory for Tokio of ''Blossoming Trail'', not only will he escape his brainwashed state, but will eventually leave the Train.
** Tokio warns Grace that she wishes she'll die alone and that no one will love her. While she's not dead by the end of ''Blossoming Trail'', everyone she ever has loved is gone.

** In the fairy tale, the White Rabbit is actually a human. The White Rabbit of the 400 Rabbits Car is also a human. Moreover, in order for the man to gain the guidance of the White Rabbit, he had to offer up the messenger (a young boy). In order to obtain a replacement White Rabbit, Kisaragi brainwashed Tokio.

** Kisaragi offers a drink to Gladion to which Gladion immediately refuses as he is paranoid of what would happen if he drinks it. That same drink was given to Tokio.

** The fairy tale that started the story had the "White Rabbit" request a sacrifice by slamming a staff onto their head by stating time was running out. Lampetia requests this to London in a similar method. Moreover, both stories describe the killing as the person slamming the club onto a person's head.

** In the fairy tale, the White Rabbit is neither white nor a rabbit -- it's a human in a suit and shades.

** When Tokio attacks Grace, she tells him that she will die alone and no one will love her. Well, he was right on the latter, but the former fate is on Simon. Moreover, the way Grace stabs Utahoshi in the head is like how she'll stab Walter in The Fog Car.

* MoodWhiplash: Gladion being stuck in a casket is then cut to Dulse being very emotional and passionate about Ilima kicking Ikari's ass in ping-pong.

** Part 4 changes the direction of the story for good as it reveals Kisaragi's plan for Project Solitaire

* RealityEnsues: If the train has been picking up people for a long period of time, of course, there's going to be documentation of it.

'''London:''' ''(looking in horror)'' ...What?

* CharacterTics: The White Rabbit does a head twitch.

* MythologyGag: Plenty to ''Series/KamenRiderFourze''.
** All of the weapons used by the White Rabbit, Kisaragi, and his friends are actually based on the Astroswitches Fourze used and are wielded in the respective arms (barring Stealth which is actually for the lower left leg). Notably, Kazashiro uses the Elec weapon and Nozama the Fire Weapon; they joined the Kamen Rider Club during the time Gentaro was using those Switches. Also, Daimonji is the one controlling the Rabbit mecha; in the show, Shun Daimonji became the Power Dizer user. Last, Maseki uses a rocket which was Kamen Rider Nadeshiko's main Astroswitch.
** The fact that Utahoshi was killed by Grace after unleashing a barrier calls back the penultimate episode of ''Fourze'' when he learned he was the Core Child and knocked the BigBad away with a BarrierWarrior...before said BigBad murdered him.
** "Specter" starts going mad when he hears Kazashiro being called "Queen". In ''Fourze'', Miu Kazashiro's nickname was "Queen of Amanogawa High". In ''Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS'', the one who caused the death of the Earth Ignis was named Queen.
** After Grace killed Utahoshi, JK comments that he's usually pretty cowardly before revealing that what Grace did is messed up. In ''Fourze'', the real JK comments this when the Aries Zodiarts forces the Kamen Rider Club to murder students for a sick play.
** Tokio screaming "Stop!" before Grace killed Utahoshi mirrors Yuki begging Kamen Rider Meteor to stop before he murdered Kamen Rider Fourze.
** A non-Fourze one: If we take the words of "Earth-as-Specter" to heart (pun unintended), the fact that he's so obsessed with hearts is because of the Crystal Heart Aqua gave Earth and that he considers precious.

** London's staff. It's wood which is the perfect counter against a Specter with electrical abilities.

* DramaticIrony: Tokio believes that Goh hates him because he got sick and Gladion reassures him that Goh would understand that it was all a misunderstanding. Anyone who knows how the anime and ''Blossoming Trail'' play out will remember that Goh took this "betrayal" '''hard'''.
* EveryoneHasStandards: London has murdered people and Specter has performed horrible deeds as part of the Knights of Hanoi. ''Neither of them'' agree on Kisaragi making Tokio the White Rabbit.

* ExactWords: Before Nozama can read Specter's fortune, she says she needs his cards. When Specter hands her the Eight of Diamonds, he also finds an Ace of Hearts. Because she needs the card that represents him ''and'' Earth-as-Specter/Easter.

* ForegoneConclusion:

* HistoryRepeats: Just like Margaret did with Gladion, Kisaragi spiked a Passenger's drink to knock them out and brainwash them into believing they're someone else. Unfortunately for Tokio, there's no Larkspur to knock him out of his trance...

* KidsAreCruel: The Apex is a gang of this. When they raided the 400 Rabbits Car, they sprayed hot sauce into Tokio's eyes. When Tokio tries to wipe it off with the first glass of water he sees, another Apex kid knocks it over out of spite.

** All of the weapons used by the White Rabbit, Kisaragi, and his friends are actually based on the Astroswitches Fourze used. Notably, Kazashiro uses the Elec weapon and Nozama the Fire Weapon; they joined the Kamen Rider Club during the time Gentaro was using those Switches. Also, Daimonji is the one controlling the Rabbit mecha; in the show, Shun Daimonji became the Power Dizer user. Last, Maseki uses a rocket which was Kamen Rider Nadeshiko's main Astroswitch.

* OriginStory: Serves as this for Tokio, revealing what he went through on the Train.

* SayMyName: Gladion screams "LARKSPUR!!!!" in a desperate attempt to find her after being separated for who knows how long.

* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Kisaragi and his friends -- Sakuta, Misaki, Jojima, Kazashiro, JK, Daimonji, and Nozama -- are the surnames (and one nickname) of the three main Kamen Riders from ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' and the Kamen Rider Club.

* WhamEpisode: This arc basically explains what Tokio Chisou ''didn't'' tell Goh back in ''Blossoming Trail'' but Part 3 takes the cake: Tokio ''chose'' to be brainwashed to become the White Rabbit to make amends to the previous one who died because of Grace.

* WhiteBunny: The leader of the titular 400 Rabbits Car is ''literally'' called the White Rabbit, and he has the looks (or at least mask) to prove it.

A dark twisted Wonderland based car with four parts, in which Gladion meets with a ghost, a Mad Hatter and an enigmatic figure known as "The White Rabbit".

** The Charcoal Car doesn't have a sun so day time is just a lighter shade of grey.

* AMythologyIsTrue: The Ultra Recon Squad's home world had myths inspired by the Infinity Train, and according to Phylos in their work in the multiverse they, while not having seen it outright, have seen evidence that their myths were clearly inspired by something real, so he believes Mallow.
* AnAesop: In Universe the stories inspired by the Infinity Train in Ultra Megalopolis all have the motif of 'not dwelling in your misery or else you get taken away into it and possibly never getting out of it'.

** There are four passengers in the car: Gladion, Specter, London and Tokio.

** When Larkspur brings up The Beach Car, she also notes of Randall selling his donut holers. Gladion remarks who'd ''ever'' use a donut holer as a weapon. Answer? Chloe Cerise.

* ColorMotif: White is a focus color: Gladion, Specter and London all wear white, Larkspur and Lampetia are white marble statues and the leader of the rabbits is the White Rabbit who is actually the white-haired Tokio Chisou.

* CreepyDoll: In the secret passageway, Larkspur and Lampetia find three bunny dolls dressed as Gladion, London and Specter, wearing tunics that are associated with the cards they drew for Nozama's fortune-telling.

* DramaticIrony: Tokio believes that Goh hates him because he got sick and Gladion reassures him that Goh would understand that it was all a misunderstanding. Anyone who knows how the anime and ''Blossoming Trail'' plays out will remember that Goh took this "betrayal" '''hard'''.

** When Kisaragi say that he and Tokio are "Friends with benefits", Specter is immediately disgusted with what that means and Kisaragi has to explain no, not like ''[[BestalitIsDepraved that]]''.

* FelonyMisdemeanor: Kisaragi sends London, Gladion and Specter to the dungeons for the act of assaulting the White Rabbit with the most insulting of weapons...a ''carrot''. Then subverted when he reveals he was trolling them.

** The fairy tale that started the story had the "White Rabbit" request a sacrifice by slamming a staff onto their head by stating time was running out. Lampetia requests of this to London in a similar method. Moreover both stories describe the killing as the person slamming the club onto a person's head.

* HopeSpot: In the flashback as to how Tokio became the White Rabbit. Utahoshi knocks the Apex away with a large barrier before going to Tokio for comfort. But just as Tokio is about to reach out for Utahoshi for reassurance, he sees a knife and can only watch as Grace kills the rabbit.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Gladion assumes that all rabbits are into carrots because Buneary and Cinderace in his world like them. One of the rabbits accuse them of stereotyping it and Specter has to explain that it's not the case.
* ItsAllMyFault: Tokio has a massive guilt complex; not only does he blame himself for breaking his promise to Goh but he also thought it's his fault that Grace killed Utahoshi. Gladion, London and Specter help explain that it wasn't his fault for either: for the former, he was just more susceptible for being sick and for the latter, the Apex were terrorists and would've started a manslaughter even if Tokio wasn't involved.

* MultipleHeadCase: Sooty, the canine guardian of the Charcoal Car, has two heads. Which is to be expected, since he's an Orthos.

** All of the weapons used by the White Rabbit, Kisaragi and his friends are actually based off the Astroswitches Fourze used. Notably Kazashiro uses the Elec weapon and Nozama the Fire Weapon; they joined the Kamen Rider Club during the time Gentaro was using those Switches. Also Daimonji is the one controlling the Rabbit mecha; in the show, Shun Daimonji became the Power Dizer user. Last, Maseki uses a rocket which was Kamen Rider Nadeshiko's main Astroswitch.

** The car is named after a census taker stopped counting after 400 and the name stuck. Whether or not there are 400 rabbits is unclear.

* ProperlyParanoid: When Kisaragi pours drinks to the passengers, Gladion immediately passes as he remembers what happened with in the Pearl Gates Car. A flashback reveals that Kisaragi gave this same drink to Tokio Chisou in the exact way Margaret did.
* RealityEnsues: If the train has been picking up people for a long period of time, of course there's going to be documentation of it.

** Tokio wasn't forced to be brainwashed by Kisaragi; he ''chose'' to become the White Rabbit as a way to atone for his mistakes on letting the Apex kill Utahoshi.
** Larkspur and Lampetia finds out that the rabbits are planning something called "Solitaire" which is an elite group of soliders, passengers and denizens alike, to attack the Apex under the belief that if the Apex murdered passengers, they'd be too horrified to continue.

* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Kisaragi and his friends -- Sakuta, Misaki, Jojima, Kazashiro, JK, Daimonji and Nozama -- are the surnames (and one nickname) of the three main Kamen Riders from ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' and the Kamen Rider Club.

** The White Rabbit's identity that ends the Part 1.
-->'''The White Rabbit:''' I am simply known as the White Rabbit...but you may call me Tokio.

-->'''Kisaragi:''' I’m sorry...did you [Gladion] imply I just drugged him [Tokio] and then ''tortured him'' to become our leader?\\

-->'''Kisaragi:''' ...I'm sorry, Tokio. But we ''cannot'' stop. Not now.

* AnAesop: In Universe the stories inspired by the Infinity Train in Ultra Megalopolis are have the motif of 'not dwelling in your misery or else you get taken away into it and possibly never getting out of it'.

* ForegoneConclusion: Given that this Car serves as the OriginStory for Tokio of ''Blossoming Trail'', not only will he escape his brainwashed state, but will eventually leave the Train.

** All of the weapons used by the White Rabbit, Kisaragi and his friends are actually based off the Astroswitches Fourze used. Notably Kazashiro uses the Elec weapon and Nozama the Fire Weapon; they joined the Kamen Rider Club during the time Gentaro was using those Switches. Also Daimonji is the one controlling the Rabbit mecha; in the show, Shun Daimonji became the Power Dizer user.

** After Tokio realizes that he has to leave the car to see his parents again, he tells Kisaragi that he doesn't want to be the White Rabbit anymore. Kisaragi promised that any time Tokio wanted to stop, they would But the chapter ends with...